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eHow Food & Drink Editor
Difficulty: Moderately Easy
Step1
Taste different varieties of ganache to determine the flavor. Ganache frosting is semisweet chocolate and heavy cream melted together, so you should taste a rich, pure chocolate flavor. You can also enhance ganache by adding a variety of liqueurs or extracts, such as coffee, amaretto or vanilla, so in addition to the rich, creamy chocolate you may taste a hint of one or more flavors.
Step2
Look at chocolate frosting to determine whether it's ganache. Ganache is usually either a thin, dark chocolate glaze, or a fluffy, lighter-colored chocolate frosting. Thinner glazes often have a small amount of corn syrup added in, giving them a shiny finish. Whipped, spreadable frostings are a light and fluffy version of ganache, perfect for topping a cake.
Step3
Evaluate the texture of chocolate frosting to decide whether it's ganache. Chocolate ganache is rich and velvety in texture. There should be no lumps or weak chocolate flavor, as ganache is from high quality, pure chocolate. The thick and silky texture melts in your mouth.